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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Lauren Aratani

Adam Neumann’s latest big idea? To become America’s biggest landlord

Adam Neumann in 2018.
Adam Neumann in 2018. Photograph: VCG/Visual China Group/Getty Images

Adam Neumann presided over one of the most spectacular business collapses in recent history. A New Age-spouting, barefoot business messiah, he managed to build and burn his last startup, the office-sharing company WeWork, in such spectacular fashion that even Hollywood paid attention.

And now he is back – on a quest to become America’s biggest landlord.

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